04/25/21 BREAKING CAMP MEANS MOVING ON, NOT GOING BACK

04/25/21 BREAKING CAMP MEANS MOVING ON, NOT GOING BACK

Our JOURNEY with God is a series of us PULLING UP STAKES or BREAKING CAMP, since He constantly leads us onward (Ex.17:1). His leading us is for the purpose of training us in the life of faith.

Remember, we are saved by grace through faith, we are children of God by faith, those who are justified live by faith and only those who walk in His light are forgiven and cleansed from all sin.

God leads us through trials (testing). We either learn and grow or we faint and fail. Even in our fainting and failing God uses our failures to teach us, provided we listen and obey. But if we refuse to learn, to submit, to follow, God still moves forward in His plan. Though He graciously gives us opportunity to get in step with Himself, He does not allow our resistance and rejection to thwart His plan.

If we follow Him faithfully through the wilderness, He will bring us to the point of entering the Promised Land of milk and honey, the land of fullness and victory. If we do not trust and obey, we will die in the wilderness, never finding the promise and fullness of victory. The best we can expect, if we drag our feet, is to live a vacillating life of cycling from rebellion to retribution to repentance to restoration, hoping that our lives end on an upward turn.

Exodus 17:1
(1) And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

STRONGS
H5265נָסַע
nâsa‛
naw-sah'
A primitive root; properly to pull up, especially the tent pins, that is, start on a journey: - cause to blow... (make to) go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside (forward), X still, be on his (go their) way.
Total KJV occurrences: 146